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Spiritualize   Listen
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Spiritualize  v. t.  (past & past part. spiritualized; pres. part. spiritualizing)  
1.
To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize soul. "This seen in the clear air, and the whole spiritualized by endless recollections, fills the eye and the heart more forcibly than I can find words to say."
2.
To give a spiritual meaning to; to take in a spiritual sense; opposed to literalize.
3.
(Old Chem.) To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit.





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"Spiritualize" Quotes from Famous Books



... a mysterious way, he would confess that he once thought differently. In his idle and dreamy days he had considered it possible, in a certain sense, to spiritualize machinery, and to combine with the new species of life and motion thus produced a beauty that should attain to the ideal which Nature has proposed to herself in all her creatures, but has never ...
— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
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... how near together geographically were once the Hindus and Persians. Whether one puts the place of separation at the Kabul or further to the north-west is a matter of indifference. The Persians borrow the idea of Varuna Asura, whose eye is the sun. They spiritualize this, and create an Asura unknown ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins
 
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Words linked to "Spiritualize" :   change, interpret, spiritualization, construe, see, purify, glorify, sanctify, purge, modify



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